From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jun 7 11:28:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29D4237B6BE for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 11:28:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e57ISU316042; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 11:28:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 11:28:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Daniel Killingsworth Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /: write failed, file system is full In-Reply-To: <20000607014516.80789.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Daniel Killingsworth wrote: > I keep getting this error and am unsure what could be causing it. Could > anyone shed some light on where I mught begin to look? > > /: write failed, file system is full Since people have trouble understanding what this means, what would be a better message to print out when the disk is full? What is confusing about "File system is full"? This is not a difficult concept, but it seems the lower 50% of the population doesn't understand that disks and filesystems are of finite size. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message